[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/9] network namespaces: playing and debugging

[Andrey Savochkin]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:22:28AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:48:43 +0400
> > Andrey Savochkin <saw at sw.ru> wrote:
> >
> >> Temporary code to play with network namespaces in the simplest way.
> >> Do
> >>         exec 7< /proc/net/net_ns
> >> in your bash shell and you'll get a brand new network namespace.
> >> There you can, for example, do
> >>         ip link set lo up
> >>         ip addr list
> >>         ip addr add 1.2.3.4 dev lo
> >>         ping -n 1.2.3.4
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw at swsoft.com>
> >
> > NACK, new /proc interfaces are not acceptable.
> 
> The rule is that new /proc interfaces that are not process related
> are not acceptable.  If structured right a network namespace can
> arguably be process related.
> 
> I do agree that this interface is pretty ugly there.

This proc interface was a backdoor to play with namespaces without
compiling any user-space programs.

As you wish.
Do you want to have a new clone flag right away?

	Andrey